Luke 22:27
Who is greater, the one reclining or the one serving? Is it not the one reclining? Yet I am among you as the one who serves.
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In Context
28However, you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
Cross References
Matthew 20:28just like the Son of the Man—He did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
Luke 17:7“And which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline to eat’?
2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
Matthew Henry on Luke 22:22-39
The Disciples Admonished; Peter's Frailty Predicted. 21 But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. 22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed! 23 And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing. 24 And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. 25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that… Read the whole commentary →